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Academic Search Premier
The world's largest scholarly, multidiscipline, full-text database designed specifically for academic institutions. Contains full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications, in nearly all academic areas of study.
ACS Publications
38 journals published by the American Chemical Society, full text online.
African American Song
Listen online to recordings of jazz, blues, gospel, and other forms of African American musical expression. From Alexander Street Press.
AgeLine
Includes information on aging and middle age from an interdisciplinary perspective; includes citations to articles, books, and government documents. Some full text articles available.
Agricola
Research and information on all aspects of agriculture. Coverage 1970 to present.
America: History and Life
Historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.
American Song
American Song is a history database that contains 50,000 tracks from America's past. The database includes songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys. Included in the database are the songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests and more.
Art Index
Covers 250 art publications from around the world. Indexing from 1984 to the present, abstracts from 1994.
Article 1st
Contains bibliographic citations that describe items listed on the table of contents pages of more than 13,000 journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business and the humanities and popular culture. Coverage is from 1990 to the present.
ATLAS Full Text Plus
The ATLA Religion database with full text added. Indexes citations to journals, essays in multiauthor works, book reviews, and doctor of ministry projects. Covers works in and related to the field of religion.
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BioOne
A full-text, thoroughly linked database of journal articles in biology. Coverage begins in 2000.
Biosis
Coverage from 1991 to 2004. Provides worldwide coverage of research in the biological and biomedical sciences.
Birds of North America Online
A comprehensive reference covering the life histories of North American birds. BNA Online contains image and video galleries showing behaviors, habitat, nests, eggs and nestlings, and more. Each online species account contains recordings of that bird's songs and calls, selected from the extensive collection in Cornell's Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds. Trial access ends April 17, 2008.
Book Review Digest
An index to book reviews in more than 8,000 periodicals, including 100,00 full text reviews.
Books in Print
Includes books in print and forthcoming from more than 44,000 North American publishers.
Business & Industry
Contains important facts, figures and key events dealing with companies, industries, products, and markets. Covers the leading trade magazines, newsletters, business dailies, etc., from 1994 to the present.
Business Dateline
Regional business information from 450 business sources back to 1985.
Business Source Complete
This database is the next level up from Business Source Premier. Nearly 3,000 full text journals in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Additional full text, non-journal content includes financial data, 300+ books, major reference works, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, 17,000+ industry reports, 1000+ market research reports, country reports, company profiles, 2200 SWOT analyses and more.
Checkpoint
Checkpoint, by RIA Thomson, provides the most comprehensive and authoritative integration of federal tax analysis, explanations, annotations, headnotes and primary sources available in a research system.
Choice Reviews Online
Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries is the premier source for reviews of academic books, electronic media, and Internet resources of interest to those in higher education.
Christian Periodical Index
Provides access to English language articles and reviews from an evangelical perspective.
CINAHL with Full Text
Indexing for almost 3,000 journals in the fields of nursing and allied health, with full text for more than 550.
Classical Music Library
Classical Music Library is a fully searchable classical music resource-a comprehensive database of distinguished classical recordings, from Alexander Street Press.
Clinical Pharmacology
Provides access to up-to-date, concise, and clinically-relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new and investigational drugs.
CollegeSource Online
Features tens of thousands of college catalogs in complete cover-to-cover, original page format representing 2-year, 4-year, graduate and professional schools.
Communication and Mass Media Complete
CMMC offers cover-to-cover ("core") indexing and abstracts for more than 400 journals, and selected ("priority") coverage of 200 more, for a combined coverage of more than 600 titles. This database includes full text for 292 journals, a sophisticated Communication Thesaurus and over 3,000 Author Profiles, with biographical data and bibliographic information.
Compendex
The most comprehensive interdisciplinary engineering database in the world.
The Conference Board
Best known for the Consumer Confidence Index and the Leading Economic Indicators, the Conference Board publishes approximately 1,500 reports, articles, newsletters and indicator releases, including approximately 12-15 research reports, 46-48 executive action reports, 10 economic forecasting newsletters, monthly economic indicator releases and several articles from each issue of our magazine each year.
CQ Researcher
Published 44 times a year, the single-themed CQ Researcher report offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues, with regular reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy. The CQ Researcher can be read in its entirety or by section, which includes a background and chronology; an assessment of the current situation; tables and maps; pro/con statements from representatives of opposing positions; and bibliographies of key sources.
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Dissertation Abstracts Covers Ph.D. dissertations granted at accredited North American universities since 1861, selected master's theses since 1962, and citations for dissertations from 50 British and European universities since 1988.
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EBSCO Animals
For elementary-school students. Provides information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals.
EconLit
EconLit, the American Economic Association's electronic database, is the world's foremost source of references to economic literature. The database contains more than 785,000 records from 1969-present. EconLit covers virtually every area related to economics.
Education Full Text (WilsonWeb)
Provides indexing/abstracting of more than 500 education periodicals, with full text for more than 200.
Education Research Complete (includes Professional Development Collection)
Covers all areas of education. Indexes more than 1500 journals, with more than 750 full text. From EBSCO.
ERIC
A guide to published and unpublished sources on thousands of educational topics, from 1966 to the present. Includes journal articles, conference papers, theses, curricula, etc. Now contains full-text ERIC documents.
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Facts on File World Digest News
A digest of world news with coverage going back 40 years. Articles are hyperlinked so the researcher can follow the thread forward and backward in time. This database includes biographies, historical documents, selected topical editorials from across the U.S., and background articles written specifically for the World News Digest.
Fuente Academica
Nearly 200 full-text periodicals from the Spanish-speaking world. Thirteen are peer-reviewed. Includes Revista de Arquitectura, Estudios Sobre Educacion, Revista de Estudios Hispanicos, Comunicacion y Sociedad, Revista de Ciencia Politica, and Revista Historia.
Global Reference Center
Britannica's Global Reference Center is the home of comprehensive online content in a variety of global languages, including Spanish, French, Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Resources include Gran Enciclopedia Planeta,Enciclopedia Juvenil,Encyclopædia Universalis,Britannica Online Japan,Britannica Online Korea, and the Britannica Pocket Encyclopedia (Chinese).
GPO Monthly Catalog
Consists of records published by the GPO. Includes references to congressional committee reports and hearings, debates, documents from executive departments, and more. Indexes nearly 400,000 publications on all subjects from the U.S. Government Printing Office since 1976.
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Health Source: Consumer Edition
Nearly 150 full text consumer health periodicals, plus full text for more than 1,000 health-related pamphlets and more than 140 health reference books.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Nearly 550 scholarly full-text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong.
Interplay
Inter-Play provides easy access to the locations of printed plays in collections, anthologies, and periodicals. Most of the plays cited are not indexed in the standard printed play indexes such as Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections or H.W. Wilson's Play Index.
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JSTOR
Backfiles of hundreds of important journals in the arts and sciences.
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LexisNexis Academic.
Comprehensive news, business, and legal information, entirely full-text.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA)
LISTA indexes more than 600 periodicals. Coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.
Literature Resource Center
Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline.
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MAS Ultra - School Edition
Full text for more than 700 general-interest periodicals. Also includes over 1,000 historical documents including the speeches of Martin Luther King Jr. Designed for high school libraries.
MasterFILE Premier
Access to information on a broad range of topics including general interest, business, health, and multicultutural. Designed specifically for public libraries. Indexing/abstracting for 2,600 journals, with full text for 1,930.
MedicLatina
A Spanish-language collection of medical research and investigative journals published in Latin America. Full text for nearly 100 peer-reviewed medical journals.
Medline via Ebsco
Covers the literature of biomedicine, including the allied health fields and the biological and physical sciences. 1965 to the present.
Medline via Ovid
Covers the literature of biomedicine, including the allied health fields and the biological and physical sciences. 1965 to the present.
Mental Measurements Yearbook
From the Buros Institute, contains the most recent descriptive information and critical reviews of new and revised tests. Coverage begins with the 9th edition. The database covers more than 2,000 commercially-available educational, personality, aptitude, neuropsychological, achievement and intelligence tests. Each entry includes test name and classification; author(s); publisher, publication date; price; time requirements; score descriptions; levels; and intended populations. Mental Measurements Yearbook is updated every six months to ensure timely access to new test information.
Middle Search Plus
Designed to assist middle and junior high school students in learning how to research current events. Full text for nearly 140 titles. Each article is assigned a Lexile number (a reading level indicator).
MLA Bibliography
Covers literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore from 4,400 journals and series worldwide. Coverage from 1926 to the present.
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NetLibrary
NetLibrary provides access to your library's eBooks. Search over 4,600 digital titles.
The New York Times
Full text of the New York Times, from its beginning in 1851 up through 2004.
Newspaper Source
provides selected full text for nearly 30 national and international newspapers. The database also contains full text television & radio news transcripts, and selected full text for more than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers.
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Oregon Index
An index to several Oregon newspapers and to magazine articles about Oregon.
Oregonian
Full text of Portland's Oregonian, from 1988 to the present.
ORULS
A union list of periodical and other serial holdings of 160 Oregon (and Washington) libraries. ORULS-Web contains approximately 250,000 holdings of 100,000 titles.
PapersFirst
Provides access to individual papers presented at conferences worldwide. Covers every congress, symposium, exposition, workshop and meeting added to the British Library Document Supply Centre's vast proceedings collection since October 1993.
Philosopher's Index
A bibliographic database with informative author-written abstracts covering scholarly research in the 15 fields of philosophy, published in journals and books since 1940. 80 percent of the records are taken from journal articles.
Physical Education Index
Includes abstracts that feature a wide variety of content, ranging from physical education curricula, to sports medicine, to dance. Other coverage includes sport law, kinesiology, motor learning, recreation, standardized fitness tests, sports equipment, business and marketing, coaching and training, and sport sociology/psychology. Health education and physical therapy are also covered.
Play Index
Find citations to 31,000 plays published individually or in collections from 1949 to the present. It covers a wide range of plays written in or translated into English, including one-act plays, pageants, plays in verse, radio and television plays, and classic drama. Play Index also includes links to the full text of plays available on the Web, plus other resources.
Primary Search
Abstracts and indexing for 90 popular elementary-school magazines, with nearly 70 full-text. Each article is assigned a Lexile number (a reading level indicator).
Primary Sources in Counseling and Psychology, 1950 to the Present
A searchable collection containing real transcripts of therapy and counseling sessions and first-person narratives illuminating the experience of mental illness and its treatment, as well as reference works to contextualize the primary material. New material is added on a biweekly basis and, when complete, the database will contain more than 2,000 session transcripts, 40,000 pages of first-person accounts, and 25,000 pages of secondary reference material. The database currently includes approximately 14,000 pages of personal accounts, transcripts, and reference material.
ProceedingsFirst
Provides tables of contents of papers presented at conferences worldwide. Each record contains a list of papers presented at each conference. Is a companion database to PapersFirst.
ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source
Designed to meet the needs of researchers at health-care facilities as well as students enrolled in nursing and allied health programs at academic institutions.
ProQuest Religion
Coverage of religious affairs and religious thinking from top periodicals, most with full text.
PsycARTICLES
The full text of 53 journals, most published by the APA. (You may want to click the PsycArticles limiter before you search, lest you get results from our other Ovid subscriptions.)
PsycBOOKS
Full text of 600 books, most published by the APA. Each chapter is available as a separate pdf.
PsycCRITIQUES
Full-text reviews of books in psychology. Formerly Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books.
PsycINFO
Covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines, including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, and linguistics. 1887 to the present.
PubMed From the National Library of Medicine, PubMed includes MEDLINE and related databases. Over 14 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. PubMed may link to content we don't have online access to; please contact a librarian if you need assistance.
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Reference USA
Find businesses in the US and Canada based on sales volume, employee size, type of business, and location.
Referex Engineering
A searchable, full-text collection of engineering reference books online.
Regional Business News
Full text from 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
RMA eStatement Studies
RMA's Annual Statement Studies, the industry standard for more than 85 years, consists of two publications: the original Statement Studies Financial Ratio Benchmarks and its companion publication Industry Default Probabilities and Cash Flow Measures. The eStatement Studies combines both Statement Studies books - Financial Ratio Benchmarks and Industry Default Probabilities and Cash Flow Measures - plus regional breakouts, all via the Web.
Routledge Religion Resource
Online access to the best reference titles on Religion in a single fully searchable and extensively cross-referenced resource, including classics such as The Encyclopedia of Protestantism, The Papacy: An Encyclopedia, Encyclopedia of Early Christianity, Encyclopedia of Death and Dying, Encyclopedia of Religious Freedom.
ScienceDirect College Edition
Full-text access to most Elsevier journals in the physical sciences and life sciences, from 2002 to the present. To see only full-text content, click on their green search button and then change the "source" to "Subscribed Journals."
Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries
An encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions, with 35,000 tracks of music, spoken word, and natural and human-made sounds. From Alexander Street Press.
SOSIG: Social Science Information Gateway
A database of several thousand Internet resources, each selected by a librarian or academic. This annotated catalog is browsable and searchable by subject area.
SocIndex with Full Text
Indexes 640 journals in the fields of sociology and social work, with full text for more than 250 of them.
Standard & Poor's Net Advantage
Includes Corportation Records, Stock Reports, Industry Survey; Register, Outlook, Stock Guide, Bond Guide, Earnings Guide, Dividend Record, Mutual Fund Reports.
STAT-USA
STAT-USA/Internet is a service of the U.S. Department of Commerce providing a single point of access to authoritative business, trade, and economic information from across the Federal Government. Access is provided to the State of the Nation, and Globus & NTDB resources.
Web of Science
Provides the Science Citation Index Expanded from 1990 to the present.
Who's Who (from Marquis)
Marquis Who'sWho on the Web is a comprehensive, searchable, daily-updated database of over 1.3 million concisely and factually written biographies clearly presented under subject headings from 22 different Marquis Who'sWho print titles published since 1985, plus exclusive access to all of the Marquis Who Was Who in America with World Notables biographies since 1607.
Wiley Interscience
Full text for most of Wiley's several hundred journals.
WorldCat
A catalog of more than 35 million records held by thousands of libraries.
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